Obviously it's biased and starts off with the implication/claim that Te'o was totally innocent. Putting that aside, I thought it was a brilliantly written attempt at making the deadspin writers the evil-doers (not that I disagree with the arguments, mind you.) Then I made it to the part quoted below and lol'd at the true hypocrisy of it due to the bolded section.

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For Burke, it is important for other journalists to have proven, credible sources. But when it comes to his three unnamed sources who have been proven wrong, their credibility is glossed over.

Nice work bashing someone for putting their spin on the uproven points of a case through the convenient use of spin on the uproven points of a case.

Manti Te'o briefly lied to the media and the public after discovering his online girlfriend did not exist and was a part of an elaborate hoax, he admitted in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Katie Couric.

The star Notre Dame linebacker, who has been hounded by the reporters since the story broke Jan. 16, told Couric in a taped interview Tuesday that he was not lying up until December. Te'o said he was duped into believing his online girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, died of cancer.

"You stuck to the script. And you knew that something was amiss, Manti," Couric said.

Te'o found out that Kekua was a hoax on Dec. 6, but on Dec. 8 he again publicly mentioned his girlfriend. The remark came as Te'o was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, the award for the best college football player in the country. Te'o was eventually a runner-up for the trophy.

"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said.

"Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?" Te'o said.

Come on Manti. No one thinks you believed you were in a serious LTR with a chick you'd never even met IRL.

Just admit it was all a hoax perpetrated by you and your boys to win the Heisman.

I just can't get over "you talk to this person 10 times a day" and "you tell everybody that this person is the love of your life and you've committed to them" and "you don't think of visiting this person when they're supposedly in the hospital."

I just can't get over "you talk to this person 10 times a day" and "you tell everybody that this person is the love of your life and you've committed to them" and "you don't think of visiting this person when they're supposedly in the hospital."

There's something about that which just sits very wrong for me.

I beleive that "something" is called "the bull**** factor" in most industrialized countries.

See, what's funny about that is that he just lied to Katie Couric. On Dec. 8, they didn't ask him about his fake GF; they asked him about some charity he was involved in and he went right into "BAWWWW MY GIRLFRIEND DIED OF CANCER" all on his own.

See, what's funny about that is that he just lied to Katie Couric. On Dec. 8, they didn't ask him about his fake GF; they asked him about some charity he was involved in and he went right into "BAWWWW MY GIRLFRIEND DIED OF CANCER" all on his own.

Didn't Teo' tell Shaap that he didn't really know about the hoax until 2 days before the NC? Now he's telling Couric that he knew in early December? Am I missing something? Just trying to clear this up, I easily could be wrong.

This story is ridiculous. They are criticizing Deadspin for a lack of investigative journalism? What about these very writers along with all of the other Notre Dame journalists who never thought to try and find an obituary, funeral announcement, death certificate, records of her at Stanford, or try to interview her "family." The lack of investigating by Notre Dame journalists is startling.

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Date Time Duration Number
12/16/12 0300 22:43 312-867-5309

Anyone try to call this number? It's a Chicago number which is weird since Lennay Kekua and Tuiasosopo are from California.

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Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I love how someone from a Rivals.com site is attacking Deadspin for using "unnamed sources." Do the Rivals websites not give information from "unnamed sources" to their paying subscribers? If sharing information from unnamed sources is so wrong, then why are they charging $9.95 a month to do the same damn thing?